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Buy-write strategies, in which an investor buys a stock or a basket of stocks, and sells call options that correspond to the stock or basket of stocks, are becoming increasingly popular.

The price of default protection on British broadcasting company ITV blew out Wednesday after ceo Charles Allen resigned.

Standard terms for non-deliverable forwards on three Latin American currencies came into effect last week and dealers are hopeful they will boost trading.

Traders and analysts expect the creation this fall of a loan-only credit-default swap index to boost volume and liquidity in single-name LCDS trading.

A rating agency review that has kept some significant leveraged super senior players on the sidelines appears close to ending, allowing the firms to re-enter.

Anders Larsen, head of fixed income derivative product sales to Scandinavia at Deutsche Bank in London, has quit the firm.

Issuance of leveraged super senior collateralized debt obligations is tipped to step up this month after a spread rally in junior synthetic tranches during July has pushed value to the high reaches of the capital structure, particularly at the seven-year tenor.

Morgan Stanley has hired Carl Mason, an equity derivative strategist at Deutsche Bank in New York, in a similar role.

TD Securities is following up on its first structured investment offering in the U.S. with another similar deal.

Trading of options on variance is picking up and the range of indices underlying the options is tipped to expand.

Hedge funds are continuing to scale down exposure to equity volatility and that has dealers targeting traditional institutional equity fund managers.

Kiran Mandrekar has flipped to Wachovia Securities from RBS Greenwich and joined as a v.p. and synthetic collateralized debt obligation structurer and marketer.